Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 2,2): Town houses in Knossos of the new era and restored West Palace Section (London, 1928)

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a closely imitated form of the ' Sacral Ivy' of Minoan decorative art. It 'Rhy-

tons'

corresponds in fact with a two-stalked type characteristic of L. M. I b vases.1 fr
The ' rhyton ', therefore, may be dated from the latter part of L. M. I b, Amis**

showin0"

which, as we know, was contemporary with Thothmes Ill's reign, or, at l. m. \b

influence.

Fig. 422. Bull's Head ' Rhyton' from Amisos, I'ontus, showing Imitation of Sacral

Ivy Decoration on L. M. I b Vases.

most, the beginning of the next Period—in other words, from round about
1450 B.C. It follows that the merchants of Keftiu, of whose enterprise
in the Easternmost Mediterranean angle we have at this time so much
evidence, had also extended their activities along the Southern coasts of
the Euxine.

1 See, for instance, above, p. 485, Fig. 29], c a one-handled alabastron of local type from
(Kakovatos). With three stalks we see it on Volo (p. 512, Fig. 315,/).

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